How popular/common is patchouli?

[AshleyR]

I'm gearing up for my first fair in a few weeks and was thinking about making a Patchouli scented soap for it.

I live in a really remote area and most people around here have never tried handmade soap. I was planning to stick to some "safe" scents that pretty much everyone likes, so I'm kind of unsure if I should add patchouli or not?

I already have a Bay Rum soap I'm bringing that a family member so kindly told me "smelled gross" LOL, so I don't want to make that TWO "stinky" soaps at my craft fair table. I personally don't really like the scent of patchouli but have heard others do... so.... I don't know what to do.

Do you think I should make it or no?

 

[honor435]

very popular, people love it, i made some w sandalwood, it was gone so fast! its one of those love or hate smells!

 

[topcat]

Ashley, I use it as a base note in some of my eo blend soaps and everyone ends up having a second sniff of those and then most likely buying. A straight patch is either love/hate imo too....yet for anchoring a blend it can be wonderful.

Tanya

 

[krissy]

on it's own it is revolting (to me lol) mixed in with something it is ok though.

 

[gekko62]

Patchouli really is a love it or loathe it scent. As Tanya says,its a great base-note,& blender,& some folk love straight,strong patch.A little goes a loooong way tho!

I was chatting with 2 women I work with,both around 40(spring chicks!!) & neither of em had ever even heard of patchouli :shock: (I was tempted to ask which rock they'd lived under their entire lives,but decided,in the interest of work-place relations,to bite my tongue..truly-wtf??)

As to whether you should make some patch soap Ashley?Everyone has their own tastes,all different,so you never know...I say give it a go...I love it with ylang & orange 5x,must be the old hippie in me!

ETAidn't realise this posts a couple weeks old....how did yr market go Ash?

 

[Milla]

I think Nag Champa is the way to go for the zen/hippie smell. Sweeter than patchouli, but different. I have one from Bitter Creek to soap. I also bought Patchouli FO from HeavenScent and it's very likeable and I don't like patchouli. It's different, sweeter.

Edited because I can't spell!

 

[Guest]

Patchouli from Peak Candle is nice too....not that "straight, strong, patchouli smell" -- it's mellowed-out with something.

 

[Saltysteele]

i'm a lover of this oil. very soothing and relaxing.

my sister has a lush soap collection, and i don't remember the name of it, but it has patchouli and orange blended, and it smells very nice; not patchouli-ee at all

 

[Guest]

I just made patchouli and red sandlewood cp soap. It smells absolutly wonderful, I think this will be more for men because of the scent. It is yummy.

 

[topcat]

i'm a lover of this oil. very soothing and relaxing.

my sister has a lush soap collection, and i don't remember the name of it, but it has patchouli and orange blended, and it smells very nice; not patchouli-ee at all

I think that is their Karma soap?

Tanya

 

[Saltysteele]

Yes!! That is what it was....

that is what it was?

they are what they were?

we shall be what we were then...... :shock:


sorry, that wording struck me funny